The coffee cups used by the Starbucks coffee company are plastic. These cups are not biodegradable so they pollute the environment. Besides, even if they were many starbucks stores do not have recycling bins. Customers should ask about the paper cups first if they really concerned about the environment. Vice president of Starbucks, Ben Packard, knows this is true and it’s an issue, he says that recycling is in the mind of today’s people it’s like their baseline, recycling and dealing with the cups. The greenhouse emissions and global warming are relatively another effects due to the higher concentration of impure gases in the atmosphere, like from coffee roasting and natural gas consumption of the processing plants. They should develop and install clean energy and fuel- efficient utilization equipment. Elizabeth Sturcken, corporate partner from the Environmental Defense Fund, which worked with the company, said the company is working strongly to achieve environmental friendly products (Allison).

Report of the Starbucks Coffee Company.

This is a research conducted by Starbucks to determine the most environments’ friendly products. The cup with sleeve model was determined to have less environmental impacts. It gives us comprehensive information on the production and consumption of cups used in Starbucks till today. We can use this to know more about the inputs and outputs of the cup used at Starbucks. Due to the higher concentration of impure gases in the atmosphere, the greenhouse emissions and global warming are comparatively another effects, than from coffee roasting and natural gas consumption of the processing plants. Clean energy and fuel- efficient utilization equipment should be developed and installed. Environmental Defense Fund which worked with the company on alternatives to cupping the hot drinks and Elizabeth Sturcken, the corporate partner of Starbucks are convinced that the company is working strongly to satisfy user needs and achieve environmental friendly products (Report of the Starbucks Coffee Company).

Starbucks’ 2002 Waste Audit.

Widely and most pressing are the milky bags which composes 15% of its trash contents. The milky bags also are not biodegradable. If most of them were recycled they could end up in the landfills. This does not reduce their disturbing ecological imbalance and pollution. Bottling water is another environmental unfriendly issue, but with not using recycled bottles in their Ethos water, raises the concept of consumption safety and pollution of plastic bottles in the society. Ben Packard, Starbucks' vice president says, that there are no recycling markets for materials and nobody is going to create them. Since there are no composting and recycling markets the plastics could be hard to recycle and reuse (Starbucks’ 2002 Waste Audit).